2005-07-09 04:02:05 UTC
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Pilotwings
Has Nintendo confirmed whether or not Pilotwings would show up on the
Revolution? I thought there was news of this game coming to the Gamecube
awhile back but then it was speculated to be coming out for the Revolution.
Any info on this would be appreciated.
Matt responds: This is going pretty far back. I wrote an article at E3 2003
about it, actually.
http://cube.ign.com/articles/402/402308p1.html
Basically, Shigeru Miyamoto took the stage and waxed on about Nintendo's
relationship with Factor 5. He proudly showed off the graphically impressive
shooter Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike and then said that Factor
5 and Nintendo were working closely together on another exclusive title for
GameCube, which would be revealed at a later date. Meanwhile, I had heard
and confirmed just a couple days before the event that the title in question
was in fact an update to the Pilotwings franchise. As time passed, I was
able to talk with some of the folks on the development side and they told me
that any such title would in fact not make it out for GameCube -- that
instead it was being prepped for Nintendo's next-generation console.
Still with me? Good. There's a little more.
Turns out that somewhere between then and now Nintendo decided to make the
Revolution something dramatically different than it had originally
intended -- a machine that doesn't quite follow the same structure as those
from competitors Microsoft and Sony. Although Factor 5 enjoyed a good
relationship with the Big N, it has always been a very tech-savvy company,
and I assume that when it learned that technology would be downplayed in
Revolution, it got a little freaked out and started to evaluate other
options. Meanwhile, in typical form, Nintendo wasn't exactly forthcoming or
very helpful in any collaborative effort, preferring to keep every fact of
its new hardware top secret, even as specs and details from the other
systems began to spill out.
So to make a long story a little shorter, Factor 5 jumped ship. It's now
developing games exclusive for PlayStation 3 and so obviously it won't be
making any Pilotwings title for Revolution. I have no idea if legitimate
work was ever really done on the now-defunct project, nor do I know if
Nintendo has since assigned it to another developer. So for now, we have it
listed as TBA until we hear something, one way or the other. I wouldn't hold
my breath for it just yet.
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Pilotwings
Has Nintendo confirmed whether or not Pilotwings would show up on the
Revolution? I thought there was news of this game coming to the Gamecube
awhile back but then it was speculated to be coming out for the Revolution.
Any info on this would be appreciated.
Matt responds: This is going pretty far back. I wrote an article at E3 2003
about it, actually.
http://cube.ign.com/articles/402/402308p1.html
Basically, Shigeru Miyamoto took the stage and waxed on about Nintendo's
relationship with Factor 5. He proudly showed off the graphically impressive
shooter Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike and then said that Factor
5 and Nintendo were working closely together on another exclusive title for
GameCube, which would be revealed at a later date. Meanwhile, I had heard
and confirmed just a couple days before the event that the title in question
was in fact an update to the Pilotwings franchise. As time passed, I was
able to talk with some of the folks on the development side and they told me
that any such title would in fact not make it out for GameCube -- that
instead it was being prepped for Nintendo's next-generation console.
Still with me? Good. There's a little more.
Turns out that somewhere between then and now Nintendo decided to make the
Revolution something dramatically different than it had originally
intended -- a machine that doesn't quite follow the same structure as those
from competitors Microsoft and Sony. Although Factor 5 enjoyed a good
relationship with the Big N, it has always been a very tech-savvy company,
and I assume that when it learned that technology would be downplayed in
Revolution, it got a little freaked out and started to evaluate other
options. Meanwhile, in typical form, Nintendo wasn't exactly forthcoming or
very helpful in any collaborative effort, preferring to keep every fact of
its new hardware top secret, even as specs and details from the other
systems began to spill out.
So to make a long story a little shorter, Factor 5 jumped ship. It's now
developing games exclusive for PlayStation 3 and so obviously it won't be
making any Pilotwings title for Revolution. I have no idea if legitimate
work was ever really done on the now-defunct project, nor do I know if
Nintendo has since assigned it to another developer. So for now, we have it
listed as TBA until we hear something, one way or the other. I wouldn't hold
my breath for it just yet.